‘Shun politics of highest bidders’

Former Oyo State People Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant Mr Olufemi Babalola has urged Nigerians to shun politics of the highest bidder for the country to move forward.

He urged professionals to get involved in politics to push the bad politicians out and pave the way for the right people.

Babalola, who was the guest speaker at the 50th anniversary lecture of the Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan spoke on the theme: “Population, Power and politics: Necessary Tools for Development.”

According to him, Nigeria politics must be capable of throwing up the right leaders if the right people get involved in politics.

He identified population as one of the tools of development, urging government to control its growth.

Babalola said: “Nigerians can help themselves to this utopia by shunning politics of the highest bidders. But it takes an enlightened population to achieve such feat.

“Politics throw up leaders who exercise power. Hence, our politics must be capable to throw up the right leaders. Politics will drive development if we have at the helms of affairs people who can predict future because they have taken time to study the trend in the past and the present, people who will not mind sacrificing their personal comfort for the wellbeing of the nation, people whose focus is building the legacy not festering their own nest,” he said.

Commending the achievements of the management of the School of Nursing, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Issaac Adewole, who was represented by the Deputy Chancellor Administration, Professor Emilolorun Ayelari, and the Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital(UCH), Professor Temitope Alonge said the principle set by the funding fathers of the institution in 1952 is still in place till date.